Platt Family History
Platt Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Platt or Platt Bridge in
Lancashire, named in Middle English with Old French plat
‘flat’, ‘thin’ (see Platte), in the dialect sense ‘plank
bridge’.English: topographic name from Middle English
plat ‘plot of land’, ‘piece of ground’ (Old English
plætt).Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German
platt ‘flat’.German: variant of Platte 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Platt
Name Distribution of Platt Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Platt families
 260 - 518  87 - 259 |
 1 - 86  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Platt families
|
1,715 - 3,428 572 - 1,714 |
1 - 571 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Platt families
|
22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Platt census records
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Platt Family Origin
Platt Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Platt
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Platt Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Platt census records
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Platt Civil War Service Records
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